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by gtufano 14y ago
You know, sites have log files for basic stats... Tracking is completely another league. I feel no guilty using Ghostery fully blocking everything by default (and I'm not so paranoid).
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by gtufano 14y ago
Just remember that not anyone buying is in USA and people in EU don't usually buy phones subsidized on a 2 years plan (that amounts to ~30% of sales, probably). I think, also, that iPhone 4 sold less than 5 million pieces in the first week.
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by gtufano 14y ago
This. To be completely honest, I have to say that outside US (for sure in Rome), the "new" Apple maps are not significantly worse than the previous (Google) ones.
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by gtufano 15y ago
I don't really know. Assuming that this is a free market, I think the fact that nobody stepped up on Android (with a noticeable success) is probably an indicator of the fact this could not be an error. More seriously (hoping we can have a q
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by gtufano 15y ago
Another (IMHO better) validation is that FreeBSD compiles the kernel with clang: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
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by gtufano 15y ago
You're right about the line. But, as an anecdote, pinterest have a very similar line and I found a bunch of "xxx has begun to following yyy" (or something like that) after the "automagic auto-follow all my friends". I discovered the "featur
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by gtufano 15y ago
The thunderbolt port have DMA access also, so I suppose the technique applies as well.
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by gtufano 15y ago
Sun SPOTs (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) was a similar project of Sun Microsystems. Now open source: http://java.net/projects/spots/pages/Home
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by gtufano 15y ago
Direct cable link: http://cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=09BRUSSELS1455&q...
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by gtufano 15y ago
The Air screen is WAY less reflective than the one on MBP 13", to the point of being usable. If you, like me, cannot bear to see your reflection in the LCD :) then the Air is the only alternative to the WAY more expensive (and weighty) MBP
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by gtufano 15y ago
10.6 and 10.5 (server version) will happily (well, for testing, at least) run in a Virtualbox VM. The host OS have to be OS X server too but with the 99$/year you got also server license for free. Using server instead of desktop is not a si
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by gtufano 15y ago
Around 1999, when I joined Sun, I saw (and used on some site) Internet Explorer 5 for Solaris.
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by gtufano 15y ago
Well, ot in my experience. Native apps still have an edge. For example: twitter web interface is nice, but twitter the iOS app is WAY better on iPad. Also, I don't see something of the quality of Flipboard coming as web app (and clipboard g
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by gtufano 16y ago
Italian too. We could probably say that this is an European thing. ;)
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by gtufano 16y ago
That's very interesting. Thank you very much.
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by gtufano 16y ago
Very interesting article... The point on Languages is a major pain point for everyone in Europe and, probably, for everyone that lives outside english speaking countries (and probably for some of them too). I find amusing that nobody approa
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by gtufano 16y ago
I, as European, always find fascinating when US people says: "The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect rights"... I feel the purpose of government is to protect and nurture the community and give the citizen common services.
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by gtufano 16y ago
A simple payment system that users trust and that you don't have to think about it is worth the 30%, IMHO.
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by gtufano 16y ago
I feel that the key is "they require customers to register with personal information without providing account-based features". Instapaper, for example, requires a login, but not requires personal informations, only a login (that could be
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by gtufano 16y ago
Well, I quit. But not only I can confirm that what the article says is true, but also that I miss those conversations with strangers during my trips in USA (they were very fun, and bridged the gap I had with my very bad English). And, yes,
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by gtufano 17y ago
You know, somewhat I expect that startups heavily financed by VC sell out, while bootstrapped companies go for it. So I do not agree with techcruch. But this is probably my european bias that kicks in...
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by gtufano 17y ago
The idea is that a tight control on free media would ease the control of public opinion by the media he controls. Beside the war with the judiciary, he controls directly the three main generalist TV channels and, indirectly, the three chann
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by gtufano 17y ago
Sun Microsystems was spending more than 10% of its revenues on R&D... that's not a recipe for sure success, I would say, if you're not able to produce something sellable from time to time. Ah, SUNW used also to have a "CTOs council"...
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by gtufano 17y ago
It's very good. I've been a very happy owner of both 770 and N810 (the "Internet Tablets" that were the grandparents of N900. The points are two: 1) directions seems not clear... maemo is gtk+-based, but Nokia bought Trolltech (and qt). Thi
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by gtufano 17y ago
N900 is a great platform, free as everyone is asking. The point is that is not for US because of the subsiding US people is looking to have. 700$ is the same price of an iPhone, the two are on the same league (more or less depending on the
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by gtufano 17y ago
It seems clear that writing application for ANY mobile device will require jumping through some obscure corporation rules. Symbian is no exception to that, nor it is RIM. Maybe it is time to relax and accept it as one of the facts of life..
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by gtufano 17y ago
Point 2. has been long solved. And in ten years using exclusively OOo I have been hit by point 1 two or three times... The main offenders were the Gartner spreadsheets with pivot table. OOo calc v.3 opens them, btw...
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Oracle-Sun deal delayed by EU(reuters.com)
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by gtufano 17y ago
A great word. In English. It is somewhat interesting that it is a word from XVI century italian, not in use anymore. I can barely understand the meaning because we have some cousin words remaining in the language. For example "Sprezzante",
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by gtufano 17y ago
The phone will be cool for sure. The venerable 700 and the N810 I have are both very cool. The phone section will work very well for sure (hey, it's a Nokia phone, who use Nokia phones knows that the phone section is very good). The real po

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